33) Here, Hamlet is essentially wishing that he were dead, and that he wishes god had not made suicide a sin, for even if Hamlet is not afraid of death, he is afraid of what may lie ahead after death. After this soliloquy, Shakespeare then goes right into the supernatural meeting between Hamlet and the ghost of Hamlet’s dead father. What the ghost tells him is what the rest of the play is centered around. The death and unnatural murder of his father must be avenged by Hamlet. The way to seek revenge is to take the life of the one that took his father’s life, so in essence killing him. Hamlet must now deal with death in its entirety until he avenges his father’s death, and the only way to do that is by causing more death. The whole escapade of his dead father coming back to tell him all this causes Hamlet to think about death like no other. He has now experienced a real ghost coming back from beyond the grave; this heightens Hamlet’s curiosity about death, and causes him to contemplate it even more.The personal relationships that have gone bitter are almost as devastating to Hamlet as the physical appearance of a ghost. The relationship between his mother and he are dead, because she married his uncle. Hamlet now feels that no one can understand the agony he is going through due to his father’s death. Ophelia, the love of his life has respected her father’s decision to stay away from Hamlet. Hamlet feels betrayed, because he showed her love, and she completely disregarded it by obeying her father. His friends even who live away in Wittenberg, he can not trust them at all. “There’s letters sealed, and my two school-fellows, whom I will trust as I will adders fanged”(III, iv, 202-203)Hamlet trusted all these people, and now they have essentially stabbed him in the back. Hamlet is now alone and isolated, and therefore, his thoughts concentrate only on suicide and inexorable death.Hamlet&...
